Correlation of the two most frequent HLA haplotypes in the Italian population to the differential regional incidence of Covid-19.
Simona PisantiJoris DeelenAnna Maria GallinaMariella CaputoMarianna CitroMario AbateNicoletta SacchiCarmine VecchioneRosanna MartinelliPublished in: Journal of translational medicine (2020)
Based on these results, in order to define such HLA haplotypes as a factor effectively associated to the disease susceptibility, the creation of national networks that can collect patients' samples from all regions for HLA typing should be highly encouraged.